Chapter 106: Visiting the Troops

Sun Weigang was about to burst a blood vessel dealing with his clueless mother!

“Mom, I just want to ask you one thing: is your anger more important, or is my future more important?”

“I heard that the division is forming a special team, and many people are trying to get in through connections.”

“My skills in the camp are indeed good, but I’m not the only one with good skills.”

“If you just want to vent your anger, then go ahead, and don’t worry about my future!”

“A soldier who can’t even manage his own family, how can he do well in the army?”

“You’ve offended so many people, the leaders have talked to me several times. If you cause more trouble, I’ll just transfer back to the local area.”

Transfer back to the local area?

That wouldn’t do!

Auntie Sun was still hoping that her son would have the opportunity to become an officer someday.

If he went back now, he’d just be a factory worker!

Being an officer was different, if he transferred to the local area later, he’d be a cadre!

Although Auntie Sun was an uneducated woman from the countryside, she had lived in the city for decades, and her mind wasn’t slow.

“Alright, alright, I’ll swallow this anger. You go work hard!”

Sun Weigang breathed a sigh of relief.

His mother wasn’t someone who understood reason.

If it weren’t for his reputation in the army, he would have already sent her back.

“Mom, it was clearly you who took someone else’s land, it was your fault, what do you have to be angry about?”

“Mom, they did nothing wrong, you need to understand!”

“If you want me to have a future in the army, stop causing trouble. Otherwise, I might have to transfer next year.”

Auntie Sun was finally scared.

“Alright, alright, I was just talking, I didn’t say I would really go find trouble with them.”

“Son, you’re my only son, how can I not care about your future?”

“Don’t worry, your old mother isn’t that foolish.”

If only that were true.

Sun Weigang was truly helpless with his mother.

She would cry, make a scene, and even threaten to hang herself!

He had tried reasoning with her, talking to her, and threatening her, but she remained stubborn!

Li Xinyue didn’t know about the Sun family’s matter. She left the family quarters and Qian Sanni took her towards the military service center.

Along the way, Qian Sanni introduced the surroundings.

“Xinyue, see those two rows of two-story buildings?”

Li Xinyue nodded, “I see, what about them?”

“That’s where the family members of officers who haven’t been able to join their husbands yet stay temporarily when they come to visit. They can only come for a month each year, and they get one room.”

“They need to submit a report beforehand, and the army will arrange accommodation only after approval.”

“They have to bring their own food when they come. If it’s not enough, their husband’s battalion or company will buy them some for a fee.”

They have to bring their own food when they come to visit?

Li Xinyue opened her mouth slightly: well, her husband’s wife is from the countryside, and she doesn’t have food coupons.

Being a military wife is really not easy!

Her husband is serving the country, and she’s at home taking care of her parents, and they only see each other once a year.

Even when they come to visit, they have to bring their own food!

“Sanni, there are many other officers’ family members here, who haven’t met the requirements to join their husbands yet, right?”

Qian Sanni nodded, “Yes, the location of our army base is good, so the soldiers here are all willing to stay.”

“I heard my husband say that there are quite a few married couples who haven’t met the requirements to join their husbands yet.”

Joining the army has conditions, it’s not like you can just join if you want to.

It’s not that the country’s conditions are so strict, but that the country doesn’t have the resources yet.

Besides, it’s also due to the special nature of the army.

Our country was only established for two or three decades, and the foundation in all aspects is still weak.

Being a military wife was truly difficult, especially during the planned economy era when material supplies were scarce.

However, things would change in a few years.

She would start a factory then, specifically hiring the spouses who didn’t meet the requirements to accompany their husbands, giving them jobs. Perhaps she could help them in some way.

However, Li Xinyue knew it wouldn’t be easy.

Starting a factory would require building dormitories, so they would have a place to live.

Then, there was the issue of children going to school, which was a big problem.

Moreover, the opening up of the economy was still a few years away, so she could only think about it for now.

Well, for now, she could only offer her sympathy.

The two women walked and talked, while Xiao Yiyi chased butterflies.

Not far from the path, they saw a row of houses, mostly one-story buildings.

“Xinyue, the first gate is the kindergarten.”

“Further ahead is the military service center.”

“Across that big road is the division hospital.”

“Past the division hospital, there are a few buildings, which are the dormitories for single cadres.”

“Further down is the auditorium, where they show movies every few days, and during the New Year, the division’s art troupe will perform.”

Qian Sanni explained in detail. When they passed the kindergarten, Xiao Yiyi leaned against the railing and looked inside.

“Yiyi, do you want to go to kindergarten inside?”

Chen Yiheng curiously looked at the kindergarten and nodded: “I want to!”

“Mom, there are so many kids inside.”

There were children’s voices inside. Children always like to play together.

Li Xinyue had heard from Chen Mingchuan that children over one year old and under six years old were in this kindergarten.

“Yi’er, your father said your application has been submitted.”

“You can go in two days.”

“Great! Mom, I’ll study hard, and read the best books in the world!”

This child still remembered her words.

Li Xinyue looked at the kindergarten, her hand touching her son’s head: “Good, Mom believes in you.”

Qian Sanni looked envious: “Your son is so well-behaved, much more than my daughter.”

Being well-behaved came at a price.

Chen Yiheng, at such a young age, was so well-behaved because he had never been spoiled.

Which child who is spoiled isn’t naughty?

“Children in the countryside have to take care of their younger siblings from the age of three. Although I only have him, he has a cousin.”

Actually, Qian Sanni also had many siblings, and she had been taking care of her younger siblings since she was young.

In families with many children, if you’re not well-behaved, you’ll only get beaten.

“That’s true, so having more children is beneficial to the education and growth of children.”

“Xinyue, you’ve joined the army too, and your child is so big, you can consider having two more.”

Li Xinyue: “…”

Why do people nowadays always like to have children?

She wants to build a career!

“It depends.”

Qian Sanni agreed with this: “That’s true, I’ve been pregnant three times, this is my fourth.”

“My daughter is five years old, I hope this one is a son.”

A son, the expectation of countless women.

Whether in the city or in the countryside, women who give birth to a son have confidence.

But Li Xinyue never thought that way.

Having a son or a daughter is fate, as long as you teach them well, a daughter will not be worse than a son.

But now, she wouldn’t say it, because she had a son.

If she said it, others would say she’s easy to talk because she has a son.

“It will, you’re so lucky, you will definitely have both a son and a daughter.”